Recent surveys across 600 SEO respondents and 1250 consumers showed some compelling local search results.
The SEO respondents ranked the top sources of traffic to their clients sites -
Google dominates local traffic with 58% of visitors to local sites coming directly from Google Places and Google.com with Yahoo, Facebook and Bing coming in behind. Their is also mention that ..

The latest research for 2011 shows the current State of Search Marketing. 900 Agencies across more than 66 different countries were surveyed to gather this emerging information.
It brings to light the importance of Advertising your site Organically (Naturally) and making the most of all optimisation listing options that are at your disposal to reduce the impact of ongoing PPC costs.
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According to the most recent report from Hitwise, Bing dominated 30% of all searches conducted in the US in March 2011. That's an impressive 5% jump compared to February 2011 results.
Google is still the market leader with 69.7% but is slowly loosing it's foothold and the only major player.
The last six months has seen a progression of the two giants closer to each other than ever befo ..

There is a strong Government push in the US to help protect the mis-use of consumer information online.
Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act for 2011 is aimed to give control over data that is collected about individuals on a website and would even allow consumers to block their information from being used. In Europe they already have comprehensive privacy regulations and data directive ..